I worked the woods a goodly part of my life but am about aged out for that hard physical job, building houses is easier these days, more of an interior finish installer now. The parts for SD saws are running low for most but with some searching they can be found.
I have heard of people getting them from Germany. I’m not sure how that works. I’m in the USA. The min reason I started all this as because I was milling and I think it over heated and melted the spark plug cap and actually caught fire for a few seconds. I got it put out fast. The only visible damage was the plug cap of course and the pull rope burnt at the handle. I have fixed both of them and I figured I would do a bunch of research and learning while I was cleaning and putting back together. I hope it’s no internal damage.
I finally got it all back together, it started easily and runs good. I fixed the muffler my self. It seems to be running and idling really good. I did not put it under load yet. I’ve been working on some other projects ( building a custom roof top tent and rack for the bed of my truck). I plan to do some milling maybe tomorrow to see how it does under a load. It does have a small gas leak seems like it coming within the carb when I turn it on it’s side in the milling position.
